BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Brockton police are working to determine if two shooting incidents that occurred hours apart Wednesday are related.
Bullets flew into Raymond Hashem’s home on Newton Street around 6:30 p.m. — one through the window, and one splintering the baseboard.
“I heard eight … seven or eight shots,” Hashem said. “They sounded like firecrackers but a little bit stronger. I heard something and then I smelled it, and a couple shots came into the house.”
About an hour earlier, a different shooting on Linwood Street turned into a police pursuit after two suspects fled the area in a white SUV.
That pursuit ended in a violent crash just a few miles away.
“My wife was calling in the crash. She couldn’t even finish the call to get to the 911 operator when we must have had 6 police cruisers pulling up here,” said Jim Franklin, who witnessed the crash.
The two suspects have been charged with weapons or assaut-related charges.
Two other people have been taken into custody separately.
All are being investigated for possible involvement in one or both incidents.
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